DESCRIPTIVE TEXT NARRATIVE FOR SMOKE/DUST OBSERVED IN SATELLITE IMAGERY
THROUGH 0200Z October 24, 2019

SMOKE:
Arizona/New Mexico...
Fires over central and east central Arizona were emitting moderately
dense to thick smoke which fanned out and thinned out as it spread to
the southeast during the day reaching west central and southwestern
New Mexico.

South Central and Southeastern U.S...
Quite a bit of fire activity was detected during the day across the
South Central and Southeastern U.S. along with numerous smoke plumes
which were primarily thin density with some thicker smoke visible closer
to the sources of some of the fires.

Northwestern and Western U.S...
Numerous seasonal type fires were detected over portions of Washington,
Oregon, Idaho, and western Montana along with accompanying smoke
plumes of mainly thin density. Additional fire activity was noted in
northern and central California with a couple of fires in northeastern
California emitting moderately dense to locally thick smoke which moved
in a westerly direction.

South Central Canada...Agricultural fire activity over southeastern
Saskatchewan and southwestern Manitoba produced a number of thin density
smoke plumes which moved to the southeast and merged to form larger
areas of smoke.

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THIS TEXT PRODUCT IS PRIMARILY INTENDED TO DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT AREAS OF
SMOKE ASSOCIATED WITH ACTIVE FIRES AND SMOKE WHICH HAS BECOME DETACHED
FROM THE FIRES AND DRIFTED SOME DISTANCE AWAY FROM THE SOURCE FIRE.
TYPICALLY OVER THE COURSE OF ONE OR MORE DAYS.  AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ARE
ALSO DESCRIBED.  USERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO VIEW A GRAPHIC DEPICTION OF THESE
AND OTHER PLUMES WHICH ARE LESS EXTENSIVE AND STILL ATTACHED TO THE SOURCE
FIRE IN VARIOUS GRAPHIC FORMATS ON OUR WEB SITE:
JPEG:   http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/currenthms.jpg
GIS:    ftp://satpsanone.nesdis.noaa.gov/FIRE/HMS/GIS/
KML:    http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/fire.kml (fire)
        http://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/land/fire/smoke.kml (smoke)

ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS REGARDING THIS PRODUCT SHOULD BE SENT TO:
SSDFireTeam@noaa.gov

Unless otherwise indicated:

Areas of smoke are analyzed using GOES-EAST and GOES-WEST Visible satellite imagery.

Only a general description of areas of smoke or significant smoke plumes will be analyzed.

A quantitative assessment of the density/amount of particulate or the vertical distribution is not included.

Widespread cloudiness may prevent the detection of smoke even from significant fires.